Authors

Ashley Arico serves as the museum’s associate curator of ancient Egyptian art in our Arts of Africa department.

Elizabeth Hahn Benge is collection manager for Arts of Africa and Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Emerson Bowyer is Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mary Broadway is associate conservator in the Department of Prints and Drawings.

Christopher Brooks serves as a conservation technician for frames.

Bisa Butler is an artist who creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. 

Antawan Byrd is associate curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Yi Cao is director of curatorial administration for the museum’s Arts of Asia. 

Associate curator Jordan Carter has been a vital contributor to the Art Institute’s department of Modern and Contemporary Art since joining the museum as assistant curator in 2017.

The founder of the scientific research laboratory at the Art Institute of Chicago, Francesca currently holds the position of associate vice president and Grainger Executive Director, Conservation and Science. 

Jay A. Clarke is the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jennifer Cohen is currently an assistant research curator the Director’s Office.

Salvador Cruz is the senior designer of Visual Design in the Experience Design department.

Cansu Cürgen is an architect and scholar and co-founder of the artist collective the Ambiguous Standards Institute.

Brittany Dolph Dinneen is the assistant conservator of objects at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum.